It's amazing how driverless taxies are a reality now . It shows how there is progress being made as much as there is talk about stagnation.
There was a row of parked cars on the roadside, and a person was walking around one of them to open her trunk. I guess the car was able to spot her in the dark and opted to pause. So we were stopped there. The woman threw her hands up as if to say, "whatcha lookin' at?" I had the window down, and I offered the explanation "self-driving car." She said "Ugh, I hate those things." Then the car continued on.
Seriously, it removes a form of social interaction, a type of job and increases the number of vehicles on the road in certain areas again. I fail to see an improvement here. All the money pouring from this is into giant mega-corps as opposed to someone working a 9-5 and driving safely because of the perceived bad behaviour of a few. Defending this AI nonsense as "just a minor problem" is the same as condemming all taxis for "bad drivers" it's just bad logic.
Tesla is the only one working on real world FSD that doesn’t rely on all that stuff
If you seriously think Tesla is ignorant here, you are not paying any attention. Elon musk’s SpaceX has patents on LiDAR they’ve developed for their rockets, it’s not like they don’t use them and are not aware of their strengths and weaknesses
And The cars do not update maps in real time, they send any changes they find and the company updates the database after reviewing. If they were able to update in real time then why need a HD map in the first place?
Waymo patent portfolio related to mapping — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uf-5cimWzA
Cruise blog about detecting and rolling out map changes "in minutes" — https://medium.com/cruise/hd-maps-self-driving-cars-b6444720...
What you’re referring to is that the car will send a notice and update the fleet to avoid that area.
Actual changes to the maps including crosswalk changes and other permanent structures require review and update. It is not done automatically.
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If a change in the roadway is detected, our vehicle can identify it, reroute itself, and automatically share this information with our operations center and the rest of the fleet in real time.
We can also identify more permanent changes to the driving environment, such as a new crosswalk, an extra vehicle lane squeezed into a wide road, or a new travel restriction, and quickly and efficiently update our maps so that our fleet has the most accurate information about the world around it at all times.
> *We’ve automated most of that process to ensure it’s efficient and scalable*. Every time our cars detect changes on the road, they automatically upload the data, which gets shared with the rest of the fleet after, in some cases, being additionally checked by our mapping team.
They are literally saying they've automated most of that process and that was 2 years ago. That's completely opposite to what you are claiming. If you don't want to believe they can do it, suit yourself.
Go ahead and get behind the companies that need training wheels and rail guards. I’m going with Tesla which will be the first true FSD solution